The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-01-06
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
On Jan. 1 the Bank OF Austin will open:
G. H. Davidson, president; r. G. Shepard
Of Chatield, cashier. 1t 10 understood that
]: c. Baston backs the enterprise.
The Minneapolis Lumbermen's exchange
agrees to support Charles E. Sinclair Tor
the surveyor generalshiP.
The great event in the religious world Of
Minneapolis on the 10th, was the dedica.
ton of the new First Baptist church, at
the corner of Zenith street and Harmon
place. Vast throngs OF people OF all faiths
locked into the edifice at all three hours OF
service, and enjoyed the felicity al Witness
ing and taking part in public worship in
the most gorgeous auditorium in the whole
Northwestern country.
James j. Bushard a former resident Of
Minneapolis. died at Los Angeles, Cal, on
the Sth inst, aged seventy-two years.
The Granite Falls journal says a new
specimens will be sent to st. Paul to ascer-
tain how good quality OF rock they have
there.
DR.. Newell made the trip from Tracy to
St. Paul with n horse and buggy, and it
took him five days.
1t is understood that the executive COM
mittee has practically agreed upon St.
Paul as the place Of holding the next ma
| ti0nal convention of railroad commission
srs in June, 1887.
Prof. George Wing, at Jacksonville, ILL.,,
died OF pneumonia. Prof Wing was teach.
tr at the institute for the deaf in Faribault
| Tor thirteen Years., and was very well known
throughout the state.
! Articles OF Incorporation of the St. Paul,
St. Croix & Lake Superior Railway com.
pany have been filed with the secretary of
state. The company contemplatcs a line
in Ramsey, Washington and Chisago coun.
ties, and more particularly from some con-
vcnient point in St. Paul on the most feas-
IDLE route tosuch points as may be deemed
advisable. The. capital stock is placed at
81, OOO,OOO
Rev. G. c. Tanner of Owatonna will re-
move to Kansas. where he has secured q
position rs teacher. This will leave the Of
ice OF county superintendent vacant.
| There are about one hundred and sixty
two men in tho Minneapolis police depart
ment. OF this number 1872 are active
patrolmen. This gives one patrolman to
every 300 people.
~ ID stated on good authority that
chicago capitalists will open bank in
Duluth with half million capital.
| Otis Gress, q university student from
Winona, was seriously injured at Min.
neapolis while attempting to board a
Manitoba freight train.
Commencing Jan. l, 1887, full railroad
postoffice car service will be placed on the
Northern Pacific railroad between st. Paul
and Mandan, OAK, to replace apartment
car service between the same points.
The much-talkedof 144.hour night and
day six-day -go-as-you-please bicycle race
was started under very favorable circum-
stances at the Washington rink Minneap-
oils, at three minutes after midnight OF the
Goth.
modest estimate places the number OF
hay-stacks in sight from the road, between
Montevideo and Kerkhaven, at ], 800 and
the tons at IL, 900, valued at S36, 900.
During the past season the oil receipts at
Duluth by lake we're 3,141, 900 gallons,
equal to nearly $4,000 barrels. Among
other receipts there were IL, 900 barrels OF
sugar, nearly all Of which went to jobbing
houses at St. Paul.
Thomas Hagerty, working in a lumber
camp near Cloquet, was struck ON the head
by limb OF a tree. He died.
1t is proposed to erect a soldiers monu.
mcnt in Red Wing to be made of granite,
twenty feet in height, with room for tab
let's large enough to contain the names Of
every soldier from that county, the whole
to be surmounted by q life-size statue OF q
soldier in full uniform. The estimated cost
is from So, 900 to $4,000.
A sad story OF ruin and deaf terminated
at Winona recently in the discovery of q
young woman lying dead in her bed from
IN overdose Of oil of tansy. Her name
was Tina Weber, twenty-four years old,
employed as a domestic in the household
OF John Kendall, one OF the Oldest mer.
chants of Winona. A bottle of oil of tansy,
a deadly poison, from which teaspoonful
had been taken, stood beside the bed, and
showed too plainly the manner OF her death.
The secretary Of the interior has affirmed
the decision OF Sparks, canceling Theodore
Ubbelondes timber culture entry of land in
section 4. township ia. range 46, Red
wood Falls land district. Jacob T. Roune-
berg gets the land.
The Austin, Geneva, Mankato & St.
Cloud Railway company has filed articles
OF incorporation with the secretary OF
state. The object OF the company is to
construct and operate a railroad from
some convenient point on the south line OF
the State Of Minnesota in a northwesterly
direction, by the way OF Austin, Geneva,
the village OF Richmond and Mankato, to
St. Cloud, with such branches as may be
deemed necessary. Austin is named a. the
principal place for conducting the business
OF the corporation. The capital stock is
$500, 900, divided into 5000 shares.
The first annual convention OF the Sec
ond District Sabbath School Association
OF Minnesota will be held at Waseca
Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. IS and 10,
1887. This district comprises Blue Earth
Faribault, Freedom, Steele Waseca, Rice
lie Sueur and Nicollet counties.
The Touring mill of Lienau e. Roescheise
at Watertown, took fire and was burnt
to the ground. The fire at the time it was
discovered had made such Roadway that
be done was to prevent the fire from
spreading to other buildings. The total
loss is estimated at IS, 900.
Miss Nora Burke of Minneapolis was in.
stantly killed while crossing a railroad
track in Waseca county.
George F. Hancock, a highly respected
pioneer settler in Lake township Wabasha
county, died OF pleurisy recently aged sixty
eight years. Mrs. Hancock died only Il
few weeks ago.
At Winona, James Thompson, the laborer
convicted of rape upon Rosabel Castle.
man, a ive-year- old child, on May 6 last,
was sentenced Tor life.
Edward Delamore died in Point Douglas,
aged seventy-one years. He was one OF
Hastings' pioneer citizens.
Francis Nellcr. Jr., of Udolpho, Mower
county, committed suicide. He was aged
twenty seven years. Last fall he desired
to marry a young lady who was working
in his fathers family, but his father for
badc it and the girl left. 1t is conjccturcd
that the suicide was the result OF breeding
over this disappointment.
At Glenwood, the house OF Postmaster
Thomas Swiger took fire and was Quilted.
All the contents were rendered worthless
by fire and water.